The Extinct Arabs (

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: عرب بائدة, ''al-Arab al-Ba'ida'') or the Perished Arabs, are the

tribes of Arabia The tribes of Arabia () have inhabited the Arabian Peninsula for thousands of years and traditionally trace their ancestry to one of two forefathers: Adnan, whose descendants originate from Hejaz, West Arabia, Syrian Desert, North Arabia, East Ara ...

that are no longer existent in today's world and have no surviving descendants. The origins and history of such tribes are obscure, although tales from them have been narrated by historians and scholars from later periods of time.

Classification

The term "Extinct Arabs" are used for the Arabian tribes who do not have any living descendants left to this day. According to

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri (6 June 1942 – 1 December 2006)Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum Pdf
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, the Extinct Arabs are the Arabian tribes with very little known of their history.Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman (2008). ''The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet''. Dar-us-Salam Publications. The term "Perishing Arabs" is also used as a description for these tribes.

List of extinct Arab tribes

* 'Ad *

Thamud The Thamud () were an ancient tribe or tribal confederation in pre-Islamic Arabia that occupied the northwestern Arabian Peninsula. They are attested in contemporaneous Mesopotamian and Classical inscriptions, as well as Arabic ones from the e ...

* Tasm and Jadis *

Midianites Midian (; ; , ''Madiam''; Taymanitic: 𐪃𐪕𐪚𐪌 ''MDYN''; ''Mīḏyān'') is a geographical region in West Asia, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia. mentioned in the Tanakh and Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was i ...

* Jurhum *Ameem *Ubayl *Hadoura The Amalekites are also considered to be among the Extinct Arabs.

Reasons for extinction

'Ad, Thamud and Midianites

The

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mentions that the tribes of 'Ad, Thamud and the Midianites were destroyed by God as a punishment for not following the orders and advices of the messengers/prophets that were sent to each of them. * ۝ Has not the story reached them of those before them? – The people of Nūḥ (Noah), ʿĀd and Thamud, the people of Ibrahim (Abraham), the dwellers iterally, comradesof Madyan (Midian) and the cities overthrown .e. the people to whom Lūt (Lot) preached to them came their Messengers with clear proofs. So it was not Allah who wronged them, but they used to wrong themselves.

Tasm and Jadis

According to

Tabari Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day ...

, the Jadis tribe became extinct due to it being completely wiped out by the armies of the

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in the 6th century CE, as a retaliation for the assassination of the king of Tasm, who was an ally of Himyar. The adults of the Jadis were slaughtered, while the children were forced into slavery. Similar events were reported by Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi.

Jurhum

The Jurhum tribe, who were ruling

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in ancient times, were eventually forced out of it in the 2nd century CE by the Banu Khuza'ah and the Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat tribes, who were enraged at the Jurhum for profiting off the

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References

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